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10:20 AM ET, August 9, 2013

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Joncallas / Silent Circle Blog:
To Our Customers  —  We designed our phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone and Silent Text) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and our exposure to your data to be nil.  The reasons are obvious — the less of your information we have, the better it is for you and for us.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying  —  “We knew USG would come after us”.  That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service.  It hadn't been told to provide data to the government …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down
Elise Labott / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: U.S. pulls diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan, amid terror threat  —  Washington (CNN) — The State Department has evacuated most of its diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan in response to a terrorist threat against the U.S. consulate, senior State Department and other senior U.S. officials told CNN.
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Erica Seifert / The National Memo:
Why Seniors Are Turning Against The GOP  —  There's something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply against the GOP.  This is apparent in seniors' party affiliation and vote intention, in their views on the Republican Party and its leaders …
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Gallup:
Immigrant and U.S.-Born Hispanics Tilt Democratic  —  Hispanic immigrants to U.S. more likely than native-born to be independent  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Hispanics in the U.S. identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party over the Republican Party by about a 2-to-1 margin, regardless of whether they were U.S.-born.
Discussion: Reuters and Ballot Box
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Seniors Aren't Very Happy With the Republican Party These Days
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Weiner mocks British reporter  —  Follow @politicalticker Follow @KilloughCNN  —  (CNN) - Stopping on the campaign trail for a sidewalk interview, a clearly agitated Anthony Weiner mocked a British reporter Thursday and laughed as she asked him questions.  —  “It's hard to take you seriously …
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Joe Concha / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin Set To Host New MSNBC Primetime Show (UPDATED)  —  Mediaite has learned from a senior source in the cable news industry with knowledge of MSNBC's programming that actor Alec Baldwin is getting his own weekly show in MSNBC's primetime lineup.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A how-to book about inciting a moral panic.  —  Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has uncovered a fascinating document: an 80-page “talking points” monograph titled “Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging,” written by a trio of Democratic political operatives.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
NSA cites case as success of phone data-collection program  —  He was a San Diego cab driver who fled Somalia as a teenager, winning asylum in the United States after he was wounded during fighting among warring tribes.  Today, Basaaly Moalin, 36, is awaiting sentencing following his conviction …
Discussion: Samizdata
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NOM Blog:
National Organization for Marriage Decries Gay Activist Witch Hunt in Iowa  —  Contact: Elizabeth Ray or Jen Campbell (703-683-5004)  —  “This is another attempt to shut down criticism of activist judges and politicians who wish to redefine marriage.”  — Brian Brown, NOM president —
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa ethics board will investigate National Organization for Marriage
Washington Post:
Gutierrez: I've got 40-50 GOP votes for immigration reform  —  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told Post Politics' Ed O'Keefe in a newly released interview that the House has more than enough GOP votes — around 40 or 50 — to pass comprehensive immigration reform if it were brought to a vote.
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Gutierrez: 40-50 House Republicans will back immigration reform
Discussion: The Plum Line
Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple's Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance  —  President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Phony Fear Factor  —  We live in a golden age of economic debunkery; fallacious doctrines have been dropping like flies.  No, monetary expansion needn't cause hyperinflation.  No, budget deficits in a depressed economy don't cause soaring interest rates.  No, slashing spending doesn't create jobs.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Oklahoma Congressman Comes Out As A Birther  —  AFTON, Oklahoma — Although Freshman Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) believes President Obama may secretly be a Kenyan who forged his birth certificate, he thinks it's too late to do anything about it.  —  During a town hall meeting …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia's Stimulus Plan: Open the Gulag Gates  —  MOSCOW — A business owner in Russia has a better chance of ending up in the penal colony system once known as the gulag than a common burglar does.  —  More than 110,000 people are serving time for what Russia calls “economic crimes,” …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
Anil Dash:
Shushers: Wrong about movies.  Wrong about the world.  —  [Update: Some a**hole wrote a response to this piece, about “Respecting Cinema in the Digital Age”.]  —  There's been a delightful debate the last few days about how to accommodate the increasing number of people who want the experience …
Jordan Smith / Austin Chronicle:
Women's Health Care Access in Steady Decline  —  Health Commission numbers confirm decline in Texas women's care  —  As expected, the state-funded Texas Women's Health Program - designed to preclude women from obtaining services from Planned Parenthood - has at midyear served significantly fewer women …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and msnbc.com
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Rand Paul on Republicans' Voter Appeal and the Federal Reserve  —  How seriously are you thinking about the White House?  —  At this point we're thinking about ways to grow the Republican Party and won't make any decision about whether that involves me running or not for about a year.
ABC News:
Obama Announces Friday News Conference  —  President Barack Obama says he'll hold a news conference at the White House on Friday.  —  Obama will answer reporters' questions in the midst of a terror alert that led the government to close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Simon Shuster / TIME:
How Obama's Putin Snub Is Playing Out in Russia
Discussion: The Reaction
 
 
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Fox News Poll: Phony scandals? Not to voters
The Asheville Citizen-Times:
McHenry gets earful on health care
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Va. doctor who lent governor's firm $50,000 was offered medical board appointment
Rick Kissell / Variety:
Obama Visit Nets NBC's Top ‘Tonight Show’ Rating in Nine Months
Natalie Evans / Mirror.co.uk:
Zanzibar acid attack: Two British teenage girls have corrosive substance thrown in faces by men on moped
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Among Blacks, Spitzer and Weiner Find a More Forgiving Crowd
Paul Krugman:
Milton Friedman, Unperson
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
War by wordplay  —  Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Mark Thoma / CBS News:
What is driving changes in the job market?
Discussion: Angry Bear
Rachel Olding / Sydney Morning Herald:
When Stephanie got her facts wrong: One Nation candidate makes gaffe after gaffe in TV interview
Discussion: WorldViews and UPROXX
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
IRS agent: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Winfrey, Bradlee, Clinton to Receive Medal of Freedom